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Examples
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Instead, he wandered about the deserted buildings and grounds, befriended and misunderstood by the servants and gardeners, reading much, it is remembered, spending his days in the fields or before the fire-place with his nose poked always in the pages of some book.
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Some round the fire-place chafe their chilly hands,
The Age Reviewed 2010
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It hangs above the fire-place now, maybe I'll take it out this year and Go huntin 'wuth Pappy again.
OK here's your chance. What is your most interesting hunting or fishing story? 2009
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The living-room is large and features a cozy couch, armchairs, a fire-place and some interesting mattresses on the floor, creating a comfortable and friendly environment.
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It hangs above the fire-place now, maybe I'll take it out this year and Go huntin 'wuth Pappy again.
OK here's your chance. What is your most interesting hunting or fishing story? 2009
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There's a great fire-place at the end, with a few logs burning in it. '
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Next a good large fire-place and chimney were built in one corner by means of stones and mud, and then the roof was put on -- a thatched one of prairie grass.
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For this they had contrived many devices, the favorite means being dugouts -- that is, pits dug in the ground, and roofed over, with shelter-tents, and having at one end a fire-place and chimney ingeniously constructed with sod.
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He looked once more at the clock above the fire-place. 1015 hours.
Tomatoes 2010
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She broke off as Hunchy came back, and went to the big fire-place, where a kettle was slung over the burning logs.
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